hash_to_xml

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Functions
   • hash_to_xml()

Overview

Convert a Puppet hash into XML data.

Functions

hash_to_xml()

Convert a Puppet hash into XML data.

hash_to_xml() given the following data:

$data = {
  '?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?' => false,
  'xml' => {
    'fruit' => 'apple',
    'vegetables' => {
      'green' => 'cucumber',
      'brown' => 'potato'
    },
    'nested' => {
      'one' => {
        'foo' => 'bar',
      },
      'two' => {
        'foo' => 'bar',
      }
    }
  }
}

file { '/tmp/example.xml':
  ensure  => file,
  content => hash_to_xml($data),
}

The file at /tmp/example.xml will contain:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xml>
  <fruit>apple</fruit>
  <vegetables>
    <green>cucumber</green>
    <brown>potato</brown>
  </vegetables>
  <nested>
    <one>
      <foo>bar</foo>
    </one>
    <two>
      <foo>bar</foo>
    </two>
  </nested>
</xml>

Arguments:

• data

  Puppet hash of intended XML data. Keys set to strings will be XML values like this:

  'key' => 'value' converts to `value``

  Keys set to hashes create opening and closing tags like this:

  parent => { ... } converts to <parent>...</parent>

  Keys set to false will open but not close like this:

  ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?' => false converts to <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

  Required

• indent

  Starting indent in case you want to nest generated XML into other XML.

  Default: 0

• indent character

  Chracter used for indent. Can be used to choose between tabs, spaces, etc.

  Default: \s

• indent character count

  The number of indent characters to use. Can be used to decide 4 spaces, 2 tabs, etc.

  Default: 2

Type: rvalue

Maintainers

This repositority is largely the work of some Puppet community members. It is not officially maintained by Puppet, or any individual in particular. Issues should be opened in Github. Questions should be directed at the individuals responsible for committing that particular code.